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with tuition and fee coverage, as well as an annual stipend. The
University of Chicago offered her the Chicago Fellows Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2010. Recipients of the Chicago Fellows Post-Doctoral Fellowship receive an annual stipend as well as research funding. She was nominated for the Duke Postdoctoral Mentoring Award in 2013 from Duke University. The National Academy of Sciences and the Kavli Foundation’s international Kavli Frontiers of Science program offered Tung the opportunity to become a Kavli Fellow in 2015. The Kavli Fellows present at their annual Science symposia to network and present their research and is offered to scientists under the age of forty-five. In 2016, Tung received the Sloan Research Fellowship in the field on Computational & Evolutionary Molecular Biology which promoted continuation of her research. Science News listed Tung on the ten scientists to watch list in 2018 for the up-and-coming minds of the natural sciences. Tung was awarded the 2019
199:. She also looked into how the different social environments affected the rest of the individual's life in terms of: social status, relationships with others, and behavior. She has conducted and contributed to many other projects. Jenny Tung's most cited paper according to Google Scholar is "Social environment is associated with gene regulatory variation in the rhesus macaque immune system". Published in 2012, the paper has been cited by fields ranging from human genomics to bioethics.
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Her research is helping to provide a better understanding for how health, lifespans, and fitness are all affected by social and environmental stressors. Tung's research is focused on primates, but also extends to other social mammals. Tung discovered that the social environment of primates doesn't
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Over the years, Tung has received multiple awards and recognitions for her research. In 2009, Tung received the
Primate Genomics Initiative Graduate Student Fellowship from Duke University, and the Katherine Goodman Stern Dissertation Year Fellowship from Duke University, which provides recipients
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Tung’s mother and father immigrated to the United States from Taiwan and moved to
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just influence the physical health and behavior of an individual, but also affects gene regulation. In a different study, she researched the same idea, but in more competitive environments such as wild
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